Porter v. Tempa Mining & Milling Co.

OPINION

By the Court,

Guild, District Judge:

This is an appeal from the district court of the Eighth judicial district of the State of Nevada, in and for Lincoln County, from a judgment in favor of the plaintiff (respondent here) and against the defendants (appellants). The parties will be referred to, for convenience sake, as in the court below, as “plaintiff” and “defendants.”

The action was brought for the restitution and possession of certain unpatented mining claims in Lincoln County, Nevada. The defense of the defendants was forfeiture and abandonment; failure to do the required amount of…